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J. H. PHILPOTT.

TRACE CARRIER.

No. 313,619. Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CEETQE.

JAMES HENRY PHILPOTT, OF "RISING CITY, NEBRASKA.

TRACE-CARRIER.

F'ZPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,519, dated March 10, 1885.

Application filed July 21, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. PHILPOTT, of Rising City, Butler county, Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Trace-Carrier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a practical and cheap trace-carrier for harness; and the invention consists of the device constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a plan view of my new tracecarrier as it appears when attached to the back, side, and crupper straps of the harness, showing also two cockeyes held by the carrier; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the carrier removed from the harness.

A represents my new trace-carrier. This is formed of the lower ring, a, and upper semicircular rims, b b, supported above the base a by the upright braces 0 0, cast integral with the base and rims b. The base a is cast with the loops d cl, to receive the hip-straps B B of the harness, and with the loop 6, to receive the back-strap C, and with the loop f, to receive the crupper-strap D of the harness.

To the under side of the straps B C D is stitched the leather shield E, to prevent the trace-carrier from coming in contact with the horse. The ends of the semicircular rims b (No model.)

do not come close together, but stand a short distance apart, forming the spaces 9 9, through which the cockeyes E E may be passed edge wise into the larger spaces 71 h, below the spaces 9 g, in which the cockeyes may be held, the spaces being of less length than the greater width of the oval portion of the cockeye.

Constructed as described the trace-carrier is very simple and cheap, and practical, and easy to use, since to insert the cockeye it is only necessary to pass it edgewise through the space 9 into the space h, and then turn the cockeye sidewise in the space h, where it will be held, as shown in the drawings.

To remove the cockeye, the same must be first shoved slightlyforward in the space h, and turned and raised edgewise through the space h, which leaves the trace and cockeye free to be hitched to any object desired.

- Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, the trace-carrier A, composed of the base-ring a, the elevated inner semicircular rims, b b, and supports 0, arranged to form the spaces 9 h, said rims being disposed in a concentric plane with the base-ring a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES HENRY PHILPOTT.

Witnesses:

J. XV. CoMBs, FRANK ENGLE. 

